Marianne North

In 1871, Marianne North, a brilliant artist with a keen interest in botany, set-forth to travel the world on a quest to paint indigenous plants in their natural habitat. Encouraged by her friend Charles Darwin, North travelled by boat, train, mule, foot and palanquin to every continent except Antarctica. She circled the globe twice over fifteen years and accumulated an extensive and valuable collection of more than eight hundred paintings, which today comprise the esteemed Marianne North Gallery at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, London. North--high-spirited, indefatigable, and brave--also kept detailed journals, which were posthumously published in three volumes in the late 1800s. Abundant Beauty collects the most engaging writings from those journals in one edition, including rich descriptions of botanica and delightful accounts of local people and customs from her sometimes dangerous travels. Abundant Beauty is a fascinating and informative read for botanists, gardeners, historians, and armchair travellers.

The Adventurous Travels of Marianne North, Botanical Artist

Abundant Beauty

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Gathers a selection of the author's paintings of flowers and plants and describes her travels in Canada, the U.S., Jamaica, Brazil, Japan, Borneo, Ceylon, India, Australia, and South Africa

The Life and Work of Marianne North

A Vision of Eden

Selected from the Journals of Marianne North, Chiefly Between the Years 1859 and 1869

Some Further Recollections of a Happy Life

Being the Autobiography of Marianne North

Recollections of a Happy Life

Brenda Elizabeth Moon

In 1871 Marianne North escaped the swaddling of Victorian society and departed on her first expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. This abridged version of her lively travel memoirs and autobiography is illustrated in colour with a selection from her collection of over 800 pictures now housed in the Marianne North gallery at Kew.

Hill places in India

Janet Symonds

The Victorian botanist and painter Marianne North records her tropical journeys around the world in this two-volume 1892 autobiography.

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